Black performers wanted for choreopoem

13th August 2021

If you have strong movement or performance skills, a writer and director wants you for his new production, especially if you stammer.

About the Project

Writer and director Sonny Nwachukwu is seeking black, male identifying/non-binary multi-disciplinary performers with strong movement/performance skills to perform in the lead roles in a new choreopoem (dance, spoken word and text) work entitled Eve and Cain.

Sonny especially encourages you to apply for this particular role if you stammer.

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About Eve and Cain

Eve and Cain (working title) gives an honest dialogue on the intersectionalities of being black, gay and disabled whilst focusing on stammering from an internalised, emotional and personal context.

It offers a unique and rare opportunity to open up conversations around communication disabilities. Sonny says, "Conversations around stammering in the media are usually portrayed through humour or trying to change people who stammer to have more fluency. Eve and Cain hopes to raise important questions around stammering and help promote representation and further awareness of communication disabilities". 

Project Dates

Rehearsal and Development: Monday 27th September—Friday 8th October 2021.

Please note applicants must be able to attend all project dates.

The rehearsal and development will take place in London. 

To Apply 

To apply, please send the following to sonny.nwachukwu@gmail.com by 5pm on Friday 20th August 2021:

• Your CV
• One headshot
• Video links to recent performance work.

Successful applicants will be invited to attend a workshop audition on Friday 3rd September 2021 in London/online. 

This project is Arts Council funded. All roles are paid above ITC minimum. 

Sonny Nwachukwu/Gateway Arts is an equal opportunities employer and particularly welcomes applications from people from a range of backgrounds, including those who identify as deaf or disabled, or who identify as members of underrepresented communities. If you identify as such, please let them know in your application.

Contact

For any enquiries about the project or the roles, or if you require this information in any other format, please contact Sonny on sonny.nwachukwu@gmail.com

Visit sonnynwachukwu.com for more about Sonny's work.

(Main picture courtesy of @shay_aiko. This was from Sonny's play Saturn Returns, which also got published as a book.)